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Belgian Congo Photograph Album
SC 842
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Title: Belgian Congo Photograph Album,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1890s-early 1900s
Collection Number: SC 842
Extent:
.1 linear feet
(1 folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Belgian Congo Photograph Album. SC 842. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Scope and Content of Collection
One photograph album containing 80 b/w snapshots, a few with captions identifying individuals, apparently from the Zone de
la Mongala (river area) of the Belgian Congo, ca. 1890s to early 1900s. Includes images of local inhabitants and activities
such as forest clearing, villages and rural scenes, buildings, paddlewheel steamboat, Belgian missionaries, and other Europeans
(presumably Belgians, perhaps company or government officials, and families).